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Books > Children's Fiction & Fun > Adventure Stories > Crime & Mystery
An exciting new adventure series for young readers from Carnegie
Medal winner Katya Balen, author of October, October and The Light
in Everything Clem and her friends Ash and Zara are members of the
Thames and Tide Club! Every weekend they go mudlarking by the
river, searching for treasures that have washed up on the shore.
Clem has found old things, new things and a whole heap of rubbish.
But one day, she finds something really special. Something magical
that belongs in the river and must be returned to its rightful
owner … or else. Before they know it, the Thames and Tide Club
are on the weirdest, wildest, underwater-iest adventure they could
possibly have imagined on a mission to save Underwater London!
Rebekah Daniels is just your ordinary spunky 9 year old girl living
in the small town of Curtis Bay...EXCEPT she is determined NOT to
be ordinary at all Her small town is filled with mysteries and
Rebekah is sure that she, along with her best friend Mouse, will be
able to solve every last one of them. This book is a compilation of
books 5-8 of "Rebekah - Girl Detective," short story mysteries for
children ages 9-12. Each short story is around 20-24 pages long. It
includes the following books: *Grown-Ups Out To Get Us? *The
Missing Gems *Swimming With Sharks? *Magic Gone Wrong Enjoy
Set up high on the cliffs, in the grounds of a ruined monastery,
overlooking the dreary town of Blinkton-on-Sea, is the otherwise
unremarkable Blinkton High School. Here resides the enigmatic Inky
Stevens - a talented and astute student, better known as "the Great
School Detective." What appears to be a trivial search for a
missing set of keys soon turns much more sinister with our hero
facing mortal danger. Will Inky unlock this case and find the key
to his survival or will he meet a horrific end?
Video games have never been more murderous. Veronica wakes up
trapped with four strangers in a sprawling manor house in a snow
storm with a dead body, a mystery right out of an Agatha Christie
novel. It feels so real - but it isn't. This is VR and this is THE
Game; a rumoured Easter Egg hidden in other VR games that draws you
into a competition for a prize beyond your wildest dreams. And
there's no escaping the VR world until the Game is won. But while
Veronica and her fellow players are trying to figure out the
puzzle, something is not right in the VR world. Blackouts,
glitches, NPCs acting strange, and a mysterious figure haunting
their footsteps. Then when a player dies, and also dies in real
life, all hell breaks loose. Without warning, the game Veronica
thought she was playing gets overshadowed by a much darker, and
much more real, mystery: who is killing us?' It may not be a game
Veronica wanted to play, but it's one that she has to win - or die
trying.
What happens when two best friends take on the world's worst
summer? On the first day of vacation, ten-year-old Ivy Crowden
falls down the stairs and breaks her leg. Stuck in a plaster cast,
she's certain her summer is doomed. Not even Teddy, her neighbor
and best friend, can cheer her up because he's dealing with his own
pain: the loss of a beloved dog. But when Ivy witnesses a possible
burglary from her living room window, her summer takes a sudden
turn from meh to mysterious. Who are the criminals? Might a
classmate be involved? And . . . uh-oh. A second mystery is nipping
at Ivy's heels. Cue the best friends, the best dog, and the best
chance that summer can be saved!
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Stateless
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Elizabeth Wein
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It is 1937 and tensions are high. A spectacular air race around
Europe seeks to promote unity among a group of young pilots, but
distrust and animosity are rife. The British and sole female
contestant, Stella North, is determined to prove not only her
skill, but also her identity as her Nansen passport declares her
'stateless'. However, barely a few hours in, Stella is witness to a
horrifying attack when a contestant's plane is forced out of the
air and crashes. Was this the work of another competitor desperate
to win? Was the attack random or premeditated and, most
importantly, will it happen again? With the competition heating up
and the death ruled an accident, Stella is left to form her own
investigation. Can she find allies among her fellow competitors or
will suspicion and deceit bring them all down? An exhilarating rush
of a novel, with all the twists and turns we've come to expect from
the award-winning Elizabeth Wein.
Part Hitchcock, part Hinton, this first-ever stand-alone novel from
Heather Brewer, New York Times bestselling author of the acclaimed
Chronicles of Vladimir Tod series, uses classic horror elements to
tell a darkly funny coming-of-age story about the dangerous power
of belief and the cost of blind loyalty that Kirkus Reviews called
"a slick, spooky, chilling mystery." When Stephen's dad says
they're moving, Stephen knows it's pointless to argue. They're
broke from paying Mom's hospital bills, and now the only option
left is to live with Stephen's grandmother in Spencer, a backward
small town that's like something out of The Twilight Zone.
Population: 814. Stephen's summer starts looking up when he meets
punk girl Cara and her charismatic twin brother, Devon. With Cara,
he feels safe and understood-and yeah, okay, she's totally hot. In
Devon and his group, he sees a chance at making real friends. Only,
as the summer presses on, and harmless nights hanging out in the
cemetery take a darker turn, Stephen starts to suspect that Devon
is less a friend than a leader. And he might be leading them to a
very sinister end...
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